Judge throws the book at ‘truly evil’ man who killed 3 family members, kidnapped child.

Bibb County Superior Court Judge Howard Simms on Thursday ordered Caesar Zamien Lamar Crockett Jr. to serve four sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole plus an additional 20 years. A jury on Wednesday found Crockett guilty on three counts of first-degree murder, one count of kidnapping, and one count of aggravated assault. He received a life sentence for each of the murder charges, a life sentence for the kidnapping charge, and 20 years for the aggravated assault charge, authorities confirmed. Crockett on March 31, 2020, assaulted Jamilla French, his son’s mother, then shot and killed French’s parents, Janet Samuel and James Samuel, and her sister, Lechasta Childs “You did everything in your power to exterminate an entire family. You killed three defenseless people. You tried to kill the mother of your child, and then you did just about everything you could to kill that poor little boy,” Judge Simms said during Thursday’s sentencing hearing. “Ultimately, this is between you
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